A 35-year-old Boston man was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison this week for trafficking a minor for sex and coercing multiple women to cross state lines to engage in prostitution, according to acting U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Joshua S.
Levy’s office. U.S.
District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin sentenced Jimall Dawn Brown to 135 months (111⁄4 years) in prison followed by five years of supervised release, Levy’s office said in a statement. Brown pleaded guilty to charges of sex trafficking of a minor, transporting an individual in interstate commerce with the intent that they engage in prostitution and persuading and coercing an individual to travel in interstate commerce to engage in prostitution in April, according to Levy’s office.
Brown’s crimes date back to May 2016, when he persuaded a woman to fly from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts to engage in prostitution, telling her he had a modeling agency and he wanted to work with her. Brown offered to pay for the woman’s plane ticket and provide for her when she arrived. When the woman got to Boston, Brown took photos of her and posted them on websites advertising commercial sex, according to Levy’s office.
He then forced the woman to have commercial sex and made her give him all the money. Then, in 2019, Brown met a woman in Connecticut, telling her he could provide a “luxurious” life for her in Boston. When the woman came to Massachusetts, Brown posted online ads with her photo on commercial sex websites.
The woman then engaged in commercial sex and was forced to give the money to Brown, according to the statement. In 2022, Brown met a 17-year-old girl living outside Massachusetts on social media and convinced her to come to Boston for what he described as a “better lifestyle,” Levy’s office said. Brown then posted ads of the girl online and set up “dates” for her to have sex in exchange for money.
Brown set the price for the commercial sex acts and kept the money, according to the statement. Brown brought the girl to Georgia and later Nevada, again arranging for her to engage in commercial sex and he kept the money she made, Levy’s office said. In the statement, Levy described sex trafficking, particularly of minors, as a “huge public safety issue.
” “Mr. Brown coerced young girls with false promises to get them to travel to Massachusetts so he could sell their bodies and pocket the money,” Levy said. “No one, especially no child, should have to fear this type of horrific conduct, and our office and our state and federal partners will not rest while human trafficking remains such a pernicious and destructive problem in our society.
” Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division Jodi Cohen said Massachusetts is safer with Brown behind bars. More local crime stories.
